Job Description

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

The senior AML Compliance Officer is part of the Financial Crime Team and his mission aims at supporting the Financial Crime (FC) team mainly for the performance of Compliance controls in the area of clients onboarding, periodical, ad-hoc reviews and transactions monitoring. In addition, the senior AML Compliance officer will be one of the subject matter experts on key projects and initiatives.
The mission of Compliance is to support the Senior Management in ensuring compliance with external and internal regulations by actively managing regulatory and reputational risks

YOUR CHALLENGE

General/ Compliance Culture

• Preparing all documents required by Internal and External auditors, in relation to Financial Crime Compliance
• Communicating effectively and efficiently with all the required departments within the Bank
• Complying with the BJBE Compliance Culture and being an ambassador of this Compliance Culture
• Complying with the BJBE due diligence standards processes and controls in line with the regulatory framework as well as with the supervisor’s and auditor’s requirements
• Ensuring excellent and evolving knowledge of all AML/CTF regulations, industry best practice and in-house policies and procedures
• Execute the Know Your Customer (KYC) principles
• Participate in compliance related projects as senior Compliance representative
• Reporting of key risks and activities to the different key committees of the organisation
• Simplify existing processes

YOUR PROFILE

Experience / Knowledge/Skills

Personal and social

• High degree of independence and high ownership
• Strong risk culture: Ability to effectively apply working knowledge of global AML and CFT (Combating the Financing of Terrorism) regulations and standards, current money laundering schemes to effectively identify and mitigate risks
• Ability to deep dive and tackle topics “hands on” when required
• Able to communicate with impact as well as build and maintain sound relationships with stakeholders locally and globally
• Solution oriented with a pragmatic approach
• Ability to work in a challenging environment
• Excellent analytical skills and resilience

Professional and Technical

• University degree (Law or Business Administration) or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar position and/or in a consulting firm
• Expert of Luxembourg and European laws and regulations relevant to FC
• Excellent verbal and writing skills in English to prepare clear, concise reports with minimal supervision; every further foreign language would be an added advantage
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office
• Strong Organisation skills
• Expertise in data analytics
• Strategic thinking

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